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It's been a busy few months -- BSDCon - in San Francisco, the FreeBSD Developer Summit, a first development - preview of 5.0-CURRENT, not to mention lots of progress on the - 5.0 feature set (SMPng, sparc64, GEOM, ... the list goes on).</p> - <p>In the next two months, the USENIX ATC occurs (highly recommended - event for both developers and users), and a number of new software - components will hit the tree, including UFS2 and the TrustedBSD - MAC framework. We'll also complete the elections for the FreeBSD - Core Team, and should have the next Core Team online by the time - the next report rolls around. Stay tuned for more!</p> - <p>Robert Watson</p> - </section> - - <project> - <title>FreeBSD Package-building Cluster</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Kris</given> - <common>Kennaway</common> - </name> - <email>kris@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <body> - <p>Packages are built from the FreeBSD Ports Collection on a - cluster of i386 and alpha machines using scripts available in - /usr/ports/Tools/portbuild/. Over the past few months I have - been cleaning up and extending these scripts to improve - efficiency and allow for greater flexibility in how package - builds are performed. Major improvements so far have been: - cleaning up and modularizing the scripts to avoid code - duplication and reduce the need for ongoing maintenance; - optimizing the build process and making it much more robust - against client machine failure; and allowing package builds to - be restarted if they are interrupted. The i386 package - cluster is currently running FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT, and it has - proven to be a useful testing ground for exposing kernel bugs, - especially those which only manifest under system load.</p> - - <p>Future plans include the ability to perform incremental - package rebuilds which only build packages that have changed - since the last run. This will allow packages to be made - available on the FTP site within an hour or two of the CVS - commit to the ports collection. We also hope to set up a - sparc64 package cluster in the near future, but this is - contingent on suitable hardware.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>UMA</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Jeff</given> - <common>Roberson</common> - </name> - - <email>jeff@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <body> - <p>FreeBSD's new kernel memory allocator has been committed to - 5.0. UMA is a slabs derived allocator that supports memory - reclaiming, object caching, type stable storage, and per CPU - free lists for optimal SMP performance. It has both a - malloc(9) interface and a zone style interface for specific - object types. uma(9) will be available shortly.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>Universal Disk Filesystem for FreeBSD</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Scott</given> - <common>Long</common> - </name> - <email>scottl@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - <person> - <name> - <given>Jeroen</given> - <common>Ruigrok</common> - </name> - <email>asmodai@wxs.nl</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~scottl/udf">UDF Homepage.</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>Read-only support for UDF filesystems was checked into the 5-CURRENT - branch in April. Backporting for 4-STABLE is being conducted by - Jeroen. The next phase is to write a newfs_udf, then move on to - adding write support to the filesystem. I'm still looking for a - volunteer to handle read and write support for write-once media - (e.g. CD-R).</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>Zero Copy Sockets</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Ken</given> - - <common>Merry</common> - </name> - - <email>ken@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - - <url href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~ken/zero_copy/">Zero copy patches - and information. </url> - </links> - - <body> - <p> I have released a new zero copy sockets snapshot, the first since - November, 2000. The code has been ported up to the latest - -current, and the jumbo code now has mutex protection. Also, zero - copy send and receive can be selectively turned on and off via sysctl - to make it easier to compare performance with and without zero copy. - Reviews and comments are welcome.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>Bluetooth stack for FreeBSD (Netgraph implementation)</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Maksim</given> - <common>Yevmenkin</common> - </name> - - <email>m_evmenkin@yahoo.com</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <body> - - <p>I'm slowly making progress. The second engineering release is - available for download at - http://www.geocities.com/m_evmenkin/ngbt-fbsd-20020506.tar.gz</p> - - <p>This release includes support for H4 UART transport layer, Host - Controller Interface (HCI), Link Layer Control and Adaptation - Protocol (L2CAP) and Bluetooth sockets layer. It also comes - with several user space utilities that can be used to configure - and test Bluetooth devices.</p> - - <p>I'm currently working on RFCOMM protocol implementation (Serial - port emulation over Bluetooth link). My next goal is to port - Service Discovery Protocol (SDP) implementation from BlueZ - (http://bluez.sf.net). I'm also thinking about adding USB device - support (as soon as i find/buy hardware).</p> - - <p>Issues: 1) Bluetooth hardware; I have couple PC-CARDs that i use - for development and testing purposes, but i'd love to have more. - 2) Time; My regular day job kicked in, so i will be spending more - time doing stuff i'm getting paid for.</p> - - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>FreeBSD C99 & POSIX Conformance Project</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Mike</given> - - <common>Barcroft</common> - </name> - - <email>mike@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - <person> - <name> - <common>FreeBSD-Standards Mailing List</common> - </name> - - <email>standards@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/projects/c99/" /> - </links> - - <body> - <p>Since the last status report, two developers working on utility - conformance were given commit access to the FreeBSD CVS repository - to help expedite development. As a result, the following utilities - have been brought up to conformance, they include: csplit(1), - env(1), expr(1), fold(1), join(1), m4(1), mesg(1), paste(1), - patch(1), pr(1), uuencode(1), uuexpand(1), and xargs(1). The - printf(1) utility was brought up to conformance with the 1992 - edition of POSIX.2, with further development planned.</p> - - <p>On the header front, much progress has been made. Specifically, - infrastructure to control visibility of components of a header, based - on the standard requested by an application, has been added to - <sys/cdefs.h>. Some work has been completed on renovating the - way types are defined. This has lead to the creation of - <sys/_types.h>. Further improvements such as the merger of - <machine/ansi.h> and <machine/types.h> are planned. - Additionally, the headers: <strings.h>, <string.h>, and - <sys/un.h> have been made to conform to POSIX.1-2001.</p> - - <p>On the API front, scanf(3) has received support for 5 new length - modifiers (hh, j, ll, t, and z). A patch to implement two - additional conversion specifiers (j and z) has been developed for - printf(9) and is expected to be committed soon.</p> - - <p>In other news, the project's web site has been moved to the main - FreeBSD site. It is now available at the URL at the top of this - status report. Please update your bookmarks.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>Netgraph ATM</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Harti</given> - - <common>Brandt</common> - </name> - - <email>brandt@fokus.fhg.de</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - - <url href="http://www.fokus.fhg.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/ngatm/index.html">Introduction to NgAtm</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>Version 1.1 for FreeBSD-current is now available. It includes - the SNMP-daemon package bsnmp, the driver package ngatmbase, - the UNI4.0 signaling package ngatmsig and the network emulation - package ngatmnet. NgAtm allows both to build applications running - directly on top of ATM and to use ATM-Forum LAN emulation to - use IP over ATM. Currently we are working on a simple switch module, - that implements the network side signaling and ILMI as well as - simple routing and call admission control.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>GNOME Project</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Joe</given> - - <common>Marcus</common> - </name> - - <email>marcus@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome">FreeBSD GNOME Project - homepage.</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>The GNOME project has seen quite a few changes lately. For one, - the author of this update has recently been given "The Bit." - Joe Marcus Clarke now has CVS access, and is working primarily - on the GNOME project. Joe has been closing a good deal of GNOME - PRs, as well as patching some of the existing GNOME 1.4 - components.</p> - - <p>The GNOME 2 porting effort continues on. We have completed porting - of the GNOME 2.0 API, and are 75% complete on porting the full - GNOME 2.0 desktop. When complete, GNOME 1.4 and GNOME 2.0 will - be co-resident in the ports tree. Both APIs can be installed - concurrently in the same PREFIX, but the respective desktops - will remain mutually independent. Maxim Sobolev is working - on adapting bsd.gnome.mk to handle both versions of the desktop - in an elegant fashion.</p> - - <p>Not to be left out, the existing GNOME 1.4 components have received - numerous updates to keep them in sync with the stable distfiles - on gnome.org. We have seen many "1.0" milestone releases including - the most recent AbiWord 1.0.0. In the next few weeks, we will be - making sure all the GNOME 1.4 components build correct packages - on bento so that GNOME 1.4 will be on the 4.6-RELEASE CD.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>FreeBSD/KGI</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Nicholas</given> - - <common>Souchu</common> - </name> - - <email>nsouch@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/~nsouch/ggiport.html" /> - </links> - - <body> - <p> FreeBSD/KGI started last year after the port of GGI to VGL. - KGI (Kernel Graphic Interface) is a kernel infrastructure providing user - applications with access to hardware graphic resources (dma, - irqs, mmio). KGI is already available under Linux as a separate - project. The FreeBSD/KGI project aims at integrating KGI - in the FreeBSD kernel. Mostly a port for now, but optimized for - FreeBSD in the future. Currently FreeBSD/KGI is under development - and the code is only available for reading, compiling but not running. - More interesting are design hints found at the project URL.</p> - - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>Libh</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Antoine</given> - <common>Beauprş</common> - </name> - - <email>anarcat@anarcat.ath.cx</email> - </person> - <person> - <name> - <given>Alexander</given> - <common>Langer</common> - </name> - - <email>alex@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - <person> - <name> - <given>Nathan</given> - <common>Ahlstrom</common> - </name> - - <email>nra@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - - <url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/projects/libh.html">Main project page.</url> - - </links> - - <body> - <p>We now have a loadable mfsroot floppy. It contains just the - diskeditor (which is really a disk partitioner) which has been - enhanced and is probably in its final form. It's been geared - towards making the newfs(1) and mount(1) steps separate dialogs, so - it reduceed its complexity. A basic fstab class has been - implemented to manipulate /etc/fstab and mountpoint. This might - find a use outside libh, by the way. Libh package format is still - incomplete and somehow buggy, so it's my next target.</p> - - <p>There is a API documentation effort underway with the help of - doxygen(1), so there's now more documentation for people that want - to get started with libh.</p> - - <p>All this lead me to prepare the release of another alpha - preview of libh that will shortly be available in the ports - collection (0.2.2). Also, a new committer (okumoto) has joined the - project (as well as I) and he is currently working on cleaning up - the build system. It's been a few months without news, so this - probably seemed a bit long, but don't worry, we still need your - help to really get this going!</p> - - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>jp.FreeBSD.org daily SNAPSHOTs project</title> - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Makoto</given> - <common>Matsushita</common> - </name> - <email>matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - <links> - <url href="http://snapshots.jp.FreeBSD.org/">Project Webpage</url> - <url href="http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/snapshots/">Project Webpage (in Japanese)</url> - </links> - <body> - <p>There are several new topics, including: Source Code Tour is now - separated into kernel part and userland part, yet another snapshots - from RELENG_4_x branch (currently 4.5-RELEASE-p4), add several - packages including XFree86 4.x to installation CD-ROM, new - cdboot-only ISO image, fix breakage of duplex.iso, etc. See also - the project webpage for more detail. Also, I have a plan to add - FreeBSD/alpha distribution to this project -- stay tuned.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>KAME</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Shinsuke</given> - <common>SUZUKI</common> - </name> - - <email>suz@kame.net</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.kame.net/">KAME Project Home Page</url> - <url href="http://www.kame.net/roadmap-2002.html">KAME Project Roadmap</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p> KAME Project has been extended until March 2004, and we decided the project - roadmap for these two years. The first one year is for implementation, and the - remaining year is for feedback of our results into other BSD projects (please refer - to the above URL for further detail). - Great change is lack of NAT-PT support due to a lack of human resource, although - KAME snap still contains it as it is.</p> - - <p> SUZUKI Shinsuke (suz@kame.net) has begun working for KAME and FreeBSD merge task in - cooperation with Umemoto-san (ume@FreeBSD.org). - Some of KAME stuff (critical bug fix, newest ports for pim6sd and racoon, etc) - has been merged into 4-stable in this April.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>TrustedBSD Audit</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Andrew</given> - - <common>Reiter</common> - </name> - <email>arr@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - <person> - <name> - <given>TrustedBSD Audit Mailing List</given> - </name> - <email>trustedbsd-audit@TrustedBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.TrustedBSD.org/">TrustedBSD -main web page</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>Over the past couple of months, progress has pretty much stopped - until very recently. The past few changes to the audit code were - update the usage of zones to UMA zones, cleanup some old cruft, - and start toying with the idea of having an audit write thread - implemented as an ithd. The next step is to decide two realistic - approaches to the where the records will be dumped -- whether that - is to a local disk or fed up to userland and then dealt with. - After that, the goal will be to expand the number of events that - are being audited, while also working in some performance testing - procedures. I will be posting to trustedbsd-audit about the recent - changes shortly.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>TrustedBSD MAC</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Robert</given> - <common>Watson</common> - </name> - <email>rwatson@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - <person> - <name> - <given>TrustedBSD Discussion Mailing List</given> - </name> - <email>trustedbsd-discuss@TrustedBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.TrustedBSD.org/">TrustedBSD main web page</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>Over the last three months, there has been a lot of activity - in the TrustedBSD MAC tree. An initial commit of the SEBSD - code (NSA FLASK and SELinux implementation) was made; many - MAC policies previously linked directly to the kernel via - kernel options were moved to kernel modules; the flexibility - of the framework was improved relating to the life cycle of - object labels; additional labeling and access control hooks - were introduced; new policies were introduced to demonstrate - the flexibility of the framework (including a cleanup of - inter-process authorization, additional VFS hooks, improved - support for multilabel filesystems, network booting, IPv6, - IPsec, support for "peer" labels on stream sockets). - Current modules include Biba integrity policy, MLS - confidentiality policy, Type Enforcement, "BSD Extended" - (permitting firewall-like rulesets for filesystem protection), - "ifoff" (limit interface communication by policy), - mac_seeotheruids (limit visibility of processes/etc of other - users), "babyaudit" (a simple audit implementation), and - SEBSD (FLASK/SELinux port).</p> - <p>Over the next month, a final move to completely dynamic - labeling will be made, permitting policies to introduce new - state relating to process credentials, vnodes, sockets, - mounts, interfaces, and mbufs at run-time, allowing a broad - range of flexible label-driven policies to be developed. - In addition, application APIs will be re-designed and - re-implemented so as to better support a fully dynamic - policy framework. We plan to make an initial prototype - patchset available for review in June, with the intent of - committing that patchset in mid-June.</p> - <p>Updated prototype code may be retrieved from the TrustedBSD - CVS trees on cvsup10.FreeBSD.org.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>PAM</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Mark</given> - <common>Murray</common> - </name> - <email>markm@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - <person> - <name> - <given>Dag-Erling</given> - <common>SmŲrgrav</common> - </name> - <email>des@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~des/pam/pam-2002-03.html">March 2002 PAM activity report.</url> - <url href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~des/pam/pam-2002-04.html">April 2002 PAM activity report.</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>The painful parts are now completed, with all authentication- - related utilities converted to PAM (except for those cases where - it doesn't make sense, like Kerberos- or OPIE-specific - commands). OpenPAM is complete (except for a few missing man - pages) and seems to work well.</p> - - <p>For more details, see the activity reports linked to above.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>OpenSSH</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Dag-Erling</given> - <common>SmŲrgrav</common> - </name> - <email>des@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <body> - <p>OpenSSH has been upgraded to 3.1, and the kinks seem to have - been worked out by now. OpenSSH will now use PAM for both ssh1 - and ssh2 authentication.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>KSE</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Julian</given> - - <common>Elischer</common> - </name> - - <email>julian@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - - <person> - <name> - <given>Jonthan</given> - <common>Mini</common> - </name> - <email>mini@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/~julian/" /> - <url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jasone/kse/" /> - </links> - - <body> - <p>The KSE project had floundered due to lack of development - time for awhile, but has been picked up recently by - Jonathan Mini. Currently, the main focus is to prepare - the "milestone 3" code for inclusion into -CURRENT.</p> - - <p>The project is still working towards "milestone 4" - (allowing threads from the same process to run on - multiple CPUs), which should be significantly easier - now due to work done by the SMPng project over the past - several months.</p> - - <p>Help could be used in several areas of the project, - especially with porting the libc_r (pthreads) library - to KSE's threading model.</p> - - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>NEWCARD</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Warner</given> - - <common>Losh</common> - </name> - - <email>imp@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <body> - <p>NEWCARD support tried to merge CardBus functions with PCI - functions, but that failed to properly route interrupts. A - branch for the merge was created and will be merged into the - main line at a later date. Too many other things going on in my - life to make much progress.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>Wi Hostap</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Warner</given> - - <common>Losh</common> - </name> - - <email>imp@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <body> - <p>Work on the host access point support for the Prism2 and - Prism2.5 based wireless cards has been integrated into the - kernel. This work is largely based on Thomas Skibo's initial - implementation.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>Fibre Channel</title> - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Matthew</given> - <common>Jacob</common> - </name> - <email>mjacob@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - <links> - - <url href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~mjacob/fibre_channel.html">Project Status Page.</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>Continued bug fixing and hardening for this last few months.</p> - <p>Future work will include making target mode work correctly and fast.</p> - <p>The LSI-Logic chipset's MPT Fusion driver is also being evaluated.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>Athlon MTRR Problems</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>David</given> - - <common>Malone</common> - </name> - - <email>dwmalone@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <body> - <p>The FreeBSD MTRR code has been made more robust against - unexpected values sometimes found in the Athlon's Memory - Type Range Registers. Problems with these values had prevented - XFree 4.2 running on some motherboards. Experimentation indicates - that these undocumented values may control the mapping of - BIOS/ROMs or have something to do with SMM. If anyone can provide - details of what these values mean, can they - please let me know, so the MTRR code can be completed. </p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>IPMI Tools for FreeBSD</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Doug</given> - - <common>White</common> - </name> - - <email>dwhite@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/~dwhite/ipmi/" /> - </links> - - <body> - <p>IPMI Tools for FreeBSD is a collection of C and Python - applications and modules for exploring the information available - via the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI), as - implemented on server motherboards by Intel and HP. IPMI is an - open standard with patent protection for adopters which defines - standard interfaces to on-board management hardware. The - management hardware consists of a CPU, sensors such as temperature - probes and fan speeds, and repositories such as the System Event - Log and Field-Replaceable Unit (FRU) inventory, and other system - information. </p> - - <p>A basic set of tools was recently made available which uses the - KCS and SMIC system interfaces to retrieve the System Event Log, - FRU repository, and system sensors. Additional features are - currently under research. Suggestions for additional features and - programs are greatly appreciated. </p> - - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>PowerPC Port</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Benno</given> - - <common>Rice</common> - </name> - - <email>benno@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://jeamland.net/~benno/powerpc-boot.txt">Current boot -messages.</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>The PowerPC port is moving ahead. It can now mount a root file system - and exec init, but fails when trying to map init's text segment in. I'm - hoping to have it starting my fake "Hello, world!" init soon, after which - I plan to try and get some libc bits in place so that I can build /bin - and /sbin and try to get to actual single-user.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>jpman project</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Kazuo</given> - <common>Horikawa</common> - </name> - - <email>horikawa@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/man-jp/"> - jpman project page both for users and developers (in Japanese)</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>4.5-RELEASE Japanese manpage package, ja-man-doc-4.5.tgz, once - published with OpenSSH 2.3 (as reported by previous status - report) on January 31, is replaced with new package with OpenSSH - 2.9 based manpages on March 3. Since then, we have been - updating Japanese manpages for 4.6-RELEASE. For new translation - and massive update, we have been making a lot of effort.</p> - <p>Continuing section 3 updating has 73% finished.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>"GEOM" - generalized block storage manipulation</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Poul-Henning</given> - - <common>Kamp</common> - </name> - - <email>phk@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - - <url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/~phk/Geom/">Old concept paper here.</url> - - </links> - - <body> - <p>The GEOM code has gotten so far that it beats our current code - in some areas while still lacking in others. Work continues on - a generalized interface for "magic data" (boot blocks, disklabels - MBR's etc) manipulation from userland.</p> - <p>With GEOM enabled in the kernel any FreeBSD platform will now - recognize PC style MBR's, i386 disklabels, alpha disklabels, - PC98 extended MBRs and SUN/Solaris style disklabels.</p> - - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>FreeBSD ARM Port</title> - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Stephane E.</given> - <common>Potvin</common> - </name> - <email>sepotvin@videotron.ca</email> - </person> - </contact> - <links> - <url href="http://pages.infinit.net/sepotvin" /> - </links> - <body> - <p>Since the last progress report, the initialization code was much - cleaned (thanks to NetBSD's acort32 port) and partial DDB support as - been added. I'm now struggling to put the pmap module into a - working state. The latest patch set only includes the - initialization changes. I did some tries to get what I had so far - working on my iPAQ without much successes (downloading a kernel - over a serial link is way too painful). If anyone has had success in - getting any iPAQ to work as a USB storage device under *BSD please - contact me.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>locking up pcb's in the networking stack</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Jeffrey</given> - - <common>Hsu</common> - </name> - - <email>hsu@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/smp/" /> - </links> - - <body> - <p>I've been mentoring someone on locking up the protocol control - blocks in the networking stack. She has already finished TCP and - UDP and I'm currently reviewing the patch with her and going over - some networking lock order issues. Locking up raw protocol - interface control blocks follows next.</p> - - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>Network interface cloning and modularity</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Brooks</given> - - <common>Davis</common> - </name> - - <email>brooks@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <body> - <p>Support for stf(4), faith(4), and loopback interfaces has been - committed to current. The stf and faith support has been MFC'd. - In current the API has changed to move unit allocation into the - generic cloning code reducing the amount of support code required - in each driver. Code improvements to increase our API - compatibility with NetBSD will be committed soon along with cloning - support for discard interfaces and ppp(4) interfaces.</p> - <p>Thanks to <email>mux@FreeBSD.org</email> for the loopback support - and unit allocation cleanups.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>IA64 Port</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Peter</given> - <common>Wemm</common> - </name> - <email>peter@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <body> - - <p>IA64 has had a busy few months. Aside from gcc, we are now fully - self hosting on IA64. Doug Rabson has performed his magic and - implemented the execution of 32 bit i386 application binaries - although more work remains to be done to make ld-elf.so.1 happy - with the different underlying page size. We have been using the - i386 perforce binary to do actual development work and submit from - the ia64 systems themselves. Marcel Moolenaar has been working on - SMP and machine-check support. We have been running SMP kernels - amazingly reliably on our development boxes for quite some time now. - syscons is now functional. We have produced a self-booting - run-root-on-cdrom ISO image (idea taken from the sparc64 folks) that - has been used to manually self install an IA64 system from a blank - disk. Aside from a few minor loose ends we now have complete 'make - world' functionality. sysinstall works on ia64. We plan on - producing a semi-respectable boot/install cdrom image shortly.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>GCC 3.1</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>David</given> - <common>O'Brien</common> - </name> - <email>obrien@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <body> - <p>As of Thur May 9th, 2002 FreeBSD 5-CURRENT is now using a GCC 3.1 - prerelease snapshot as the system C compiler. At this time of - cutting over, the compiler is working well on i386, Alpha, Sparc64, - and IA-64 for building world. There is a known problem with our - atomic ops on Alpha that prevents a GCC 3.1 built kernel from - booting.</p> - - <p>Currently the C++ support libraries (libstdc++, et.al.) does not - build and thus prevents the system C++ compiler from being used.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>Release Engineering</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <common>Release Engineering</common> - </name> - - <email>re@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/" /> - </links> - - <body> - <p>The release engineering team released FreeBSD <a - href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.0R/DP1/announce.html">5.0-DP1</a> - on 8 April 2002. This Developer Preview gives developers and - other interested parties a chance to help test some of the new - features to appear in 5.0-RELEASE. This distribution has known - bugs and areas of instability, and should only be used for - (non-production) testing and development.</p> - - <p>The next releases of FreeBSD will be 4.6-RELEASE (scheduled for - 1 June 2002) and 5.0-DP2 (scheduled for 25 June 2002). - Information on the release schedules and more can be found on - the team's new area on the FreeBSD Web site (see the URL - above).</p> - - <p>Finally, the team has gained two new members: Brian Somers and - Bruce A. Mah.</p> - - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>ppp RADIUS/MS-CHAP support</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Brian</given> - - <common>Somers</common> - </name> - - <email>brian@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <body> - <p>libradius now supports RADIUS vendor attribute extensions and - user-ppp is now capable of doing MS-CHAP authentication via a RADIUS - server. A new net/freeradius port has been created for support of - MS-CHAP in a RADIUS server.</p> - - <p>MS-CHAPv2 support will be added soon.</p> - - <p>The work is sponsored by Monzoon.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>Improving FreeBSD Startup Scripts</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Doug</given> - <common>Barton</common> - </name> - <email>dougb@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Mike</given> - <common>Makonnen</common> - </name> - <email>makonnen@pacbell.net</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Gordon</given> - <common>Tetlow</common> - </name> - <email>gordont@gnf.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://home.pacbell.net/makonnen/rcng.html" /> - <url href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreeBSD-rc/" /> - <url href="http://www.mewburn.net/luke/bibliography.html" /> - <url href="http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/rc/" /> - </links> - - <body> - <p>Mike Makonnen has done quite a bit of excellent work on porting the - scripts from FreeBSD into the NetBSD framework. The next step seems - to be to try to reduce the amount of diffs between our implementation - and the original set from NetBSD.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>SMPng</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>John</given> - - <common>Baldwin</common> - </name> - - <email>jhb@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - - <person> - <email>smp@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/smp/" /> - </links> - - <body> - <p>The SMPng project has been picking up steam in the last few - months thankfully. In February, Seigo Tanimura-san committed - the first round of process group and session locking. Alfred - Perlstein also added locking to most of the pipe - implementation. In March, Alfred fixed several problems with - the locking for select() and pushed down Giant some in several - system calls. Andrew Reiter added locking for kernel module - metadata, and Jeff Roberson wrote a new SMP-friendly slab - allocator to replace both the zone allocator and the in-kernel - malloc(). The use of the critical section API was cleaned up - to not be abused as replacements for disabling and enabling - interrupts. Also, Matt Dillon optimized the MD portion of the - critical section code on the i386 architecture. Several other - subsystems were also locked in April as well. See the SMPng - website and todo list for more details.</p> - - <p>Some of the current works in progress include locking for the - kernel linker by Andrew Reiter and light-weight interrupt - threads for the i386 by Bosko Milekic. Seigo Tanimura-san, - Alfred Perlstein, and Jeffrey Hsu are also working on locking - down various pieces of the networking stack. Alan Cox has - started working on fixing the existing locking in the VM - subsystem and moving bits of it out from under Giant. John - Baldwin has written an implementation of turnstiles as well as - adaptive mutexes in the jhb_lock Perforce branch. The - adaptive mutexes appear to be stable on i386, alpha, and - sparc64, but the turnstile code still contains several tricky - lock order reversals. John also plans to commit the - p_canfoo() API change to use td_ucred in the very near future - and then finish the task of making ktrace(4) use a worker - thread.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>New mount(2) API</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Poul-Henning</given> - - <common>Kamp</common> - </name> - - <email>phk@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - <person> - <name> - <given>Maxime</given> - - <common>Henrion</common> - </name> - - <email>mux@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <body> - <p>The patch for the new mount API has now been committed to the - tree. Several filesystems also have been converted to this - new mount API, namely procfs, linprocfs, fdescfs and devfs. - I'm working on converting more filesystems to nmount, and - actually already have UFS done. It has not been committed yet - to avoid conflicting with the UFS2 work, but it should hit the - tree soon. Manpages are still missing at the moment because - I had to modify the API slightly. I hope to have them done - soon now.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>FreeBSD Developer Summit</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Robert</given> - <common>Watson</common> - </name> - <email>rwatson@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/events/2002/bsdcon-devsummit.html" /> - </links> - - <body> - <p>The second FreeBSD Developer Summit, held following the BSD - Conference in San Francisco in February, was a great success. Around - 40 developers attended in person, another five by phone, and many - others by webcast. During a marathon-esque eight hour session, a - variety of development topics were discussed, including adding - inheritance to the KOBJ system, ports to new architectures, - adaptations of the toolchain for new architectures, the GEOM - extensible storage device framework, upcoming changes to the network - stack, TrustedBSD features, KSE, SMPng, and the release engineering - schedule. This event was sponsored by DARPA and NAI Labs, with - webcasting provided by Joe Karthauser, bandwidth provided by Yahoo!. - Planning for future such events is now underway; a summary/transcript - of discussion may be found at the URL above.</p> - </body> - </project> -</report> |